Nobody has a franchise on what is good.

I had no desire from an early age to be on the stage.

For about the first ten years of my career, I wasn't terribly motivated.

I do believe all actors are smart.

You have to think an awful lot about your motivations or people's behavioral intentions or what their body language can indicate or what's really going on or what makes people sometimes do, sometimes, the irrational things they do.

Anyone who devotes time and attention to what makes people tick, to me, is a smart person.

If you don't think you want to go on a train and read the paper every day and work from nine to six at night, there was something about the uncertainty when I was younger which was very attractive